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Posts: 10830 Joined: 05 May 2002 Last Visit: 26 Apr 2018
LD count: lost uhm lots
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The story of the sudden downtime |
Posted: Thu 11 Aug, 2011 |
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Hi guys,
Sorry for the late update, i have to sleep too
Yesterday there was a big power failure at the datacenter that our server is in.
It took about 7 hours before all servers came back online.
As far as I know an can see from a first glance, no data has been lost, forum just went on from when power came back on again.
Thank you for your patience.
*Qu gives everyone extra cookies
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Posts: 4392 Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Last Visit: 01 May 2017
LD count: Loads of them
Location: lost | |
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Posted: Thu 11 Aug, 2011 |
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So this explains why I was unable to come to forum yesterday
Current LD goal(s): Become a fire-master
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Posts: 717 Joined: 05 Mar 2010 Last Visit: 07 May 2016
LD count: 31
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom | |
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Posted: Thu 11 Aug, 2011 |
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Good that it is fixed. I experienced that downtime yesterday. Still the forums crash occasionally, at least for me. I sometimes get the "Cannot find page" window when I use the forums. And I can't access ld4all.com for 20-30 mins...
Current LD goal(s): Have a lightsaber duel with a DC.
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Posts: 39 Joined: 31 Jul 2011 Last Visit: 18 May 2014
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Location: Oak Park, MI | |
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Posted: Thu 11 Aug, 2011 |
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Being your name servers use the same domain name as main site, when the power went away, even the ip address lookup failed. So, the error was not a site is not responding, it was ld4all does not exist.
It's not that big a deal, but i would suggest moving the nameservers elsewhere.
Current LD goal(s): Flying
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Posts: 575 Joined: 13 Aug 2010 Last Visit: 17 Sep 2012
LD count: 73
Location: Holland | |
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Posted: Thu 11 Aug, 2011 |
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Pfeeww, I was getting worried.
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Posts: 50 Joined: 13 Aug 2010 Last Visit: 24 Jun 2013
LD count: x+1
Location: confidential | |
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Posted: Thu 11 Aug, 2011 |
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I thought I was banned for being too random.
But great, the site is back online and running nicely!
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Posts: 2978 Joined: 23 Dec 2009 Last Visit: 29 Oct 2017
LD count: 349
Location: In the not too distant future... somewhere in time and space | |
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Posted: Thu 11 Aug, 2011 |
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*Whew* I almost went in to LD4withdrawl... that could have been bad
Current LD goal(s): Defeat Xander in our lucid duel!
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Posts: 332 Joined: 03 May 2011 Last Visit: 26 Apr 2014
LD count: 38ish
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Posted: Thu 11 Aug, 2011 |
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i was freaking out i couldnt get my vote in for VG and was planned on being banned for the next WG/VG
Current LD goal(s): shared dream, spend a week surviving in the wilderness, FLY!@!@
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Posts: 1444 Joined: 06 Apr 2007 Last Visit: 26 Jul 2017
LD count: 13
Location: Hunting... | |
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Posted: Fri 12 Aug, 2011 |
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chacham wrote: |
Being your name servers use the same domain name as main site, when the power went away, even the ip address lookup failed. So, the error was not a site is not responding, it was ld4all does not exist.
It's not that big a deal, but i would suggest moving the nameservers elsewhere. |
Why would you suggest this? Since ld4all only has one server, if its down the site won't work. Whether that's a "server is unreachable" error or a DNS failure seems to make no difference to me. I disagree with your suggestion. Sounds like hassle and possible expense for no gain. Using free services to host DNS also makes it highly unlikely to be able to keep the "ns.ld4all.com" nameserver names. This seems more valuable than getting a different error message to me.
Current LD goal(s): Become a Dragon! RAWR!
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Posts: 39 Joined: 31 Jul 2011 Last Visit: 18 May 2014
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Location: Oak Park, MI | |
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Posted: Fri 12 Aug, 2011 |
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GreenDragon wrote: |
Using free services to host DNS also makes it highly unlikely to be able to keep the "ns.ld4all.com" nameserver names. This seems more valuable than getting a different error message to me.  |
Heh.
Actually, there's no reason to stop using the localized nameserver. Just add one from elsewhere. I'm guessing wild west domains has their own DNS servers for usage.
Current LD goal(s): Flying
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Posts: 1 Joined: 13 Aug 2011 Last Visit: 13 Aug 2011
LD count: 26
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Posted: Sat 13 Aug, 2011 |
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I have not been able to log in for quite a while now, so I know how it feels. Occasionally I was able to log in, but not stay logged, sometimes LD4all would not even show up on the page, just white. Scary
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